Although he is seen as close to the Islamist parties Burhan has family ties to the family of Mohamed Osman el Mirghani the Sufi patron of the Democratic Unionist Party (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
• April 1986: El Turabi fails to win parliamentary seat in free elections; at insistence of DUP leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani joins his brother-in-law El Sadig el Mahdi's government as Attorney General later Foreign Minister (AC Vol 27 No 9 The shadow of the Brotherhood)...
The NCP allowed the rump of Mohamed Osman el Mirghani's once powerful Democratic Unionist Party to win 25 by not standing against it in its areas...
Enthusiasm was also lacking in the seats where the NCP stood back in favour of one of its 46 'appendage' (tawali) parties or to reward Mohamed Osman el Mirghani's faction of the once mighty Democratic Unionist Party...
The two exceptions are the Umma which suspended NCF membership after the government announced its National Dialogue in January and Mohamed Osman el Mirghani's faction of the Democratic Unionist Party DUP-Original which still cooperates with the regime...
• DUP-Original: under Mohamed Osman el Mirghani joined regime 2011 led to further splits in party...
The DUP leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani has for months been keeping his head down in Britain...
At home the aim remains to bring El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi (Umma Party) and Mohamed Osman el Mirghani (Democratic Unionist Party) into government but only on NCP terms...
Umma chief El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi and the DUP’s Mohamed Osman el Mirghani both deployed their sons into the NCP’s largely unchanged ‘new’ government in late November...
Accordingly Abdel Rahman el Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi a security officer who commanded the small Umma contingent in the opposition armed forces in Eritrea in the 1990s and Ja’afar el Sadig Mohamed Osman el Mirghani are now Presidential Assistants to Omer...
DUP leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani who still talks to Khartoum turns a blind eye...